Recent studies have increasingly downplayed the influence of Martin
Luther’s theology of Law and Gospel on early English evangelicals such
as William Tyndale. The impact of a late medieval Augustinian
renaissance, Erasmian Humanism, the Reformed tradition, and Lollardy
have all but eclipsed the more central role once attributed to Luther.
This book argues that scholars have wrongly diminished Luther’s
significant influence upon first-generation evangelicals William
Tyndale, John Frith, and Robert Barnes during the English Reformation of
the 1520s and 1530s.
